Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, a long-time Republican representative from California’s 48th Congressional District, has spent the early days of spring barnstorming through his home district in and around Orange County, California supporting local governments as they take on Democrats’ sanctuary state policies.
The infamous sanctuary state bill, signed into law by Democrat Governor Jerry Brown late last year, has infuriated Californians who have began lobbying their local governing bodies to join a growing list of municipalities voting to support a federal lawsuit against the state. In a matter of weeks, the lawsuit has become a flash point issue in Orange County, as city after city votes to take on Governor Jerry Brown and the California Legislature, with others planning votes on the matter in the coming days. As has been pointed out by politicians and concerned citizens alike, California’s sanctuary state laws fly directly in the face of not only federal immigration authority, but America’s criminal justice system, treating illegal aliens as royalty immune to the laws of the United States.
As a sitting United States Congressman, Rohrabacher has given a boost to the grassroots effort to combat sanctuary laws, appearing alongside groups of concerned citizens before city council meetings to not only offer support, but speak on the topic at hand. While addressing the Fountain Valley City Council last week, Rohrabacher took his support a step further, announcing that he would personally fund the city’s legal expenses shall they decide to take on the State of California. ‘Side with Americans and not illegal alien criminals,’ Rohrabacher said before the council’s vote. They took his advice, reversing their previous stance.
Unfortunately for the Democrats in Sacramento, Rohrabacher’s opposition didn’t end in Fountain Valley. He has continued his barnstorming tour throughout the county, and last night, appeared in the famed Newport Beach, addressing the City Council before a packed house. Just hours before boarding a flight to Washington, Rohrabacher told the Newport Beach City Council, ‘the sanctuary movement is an outrage in the sense that state law enforcement can’t cooperate with federal law enforcement to deal with criminal illegal aliens. Not just illegal aliens, but criminal illegal aliens! This is a crisis moment!’ ‘This is not a partisan issue,’ he continued. ‘This is whether or not we are standing up for the American people at a time when our country is being inundated with people who come here illegally…The safety of our neighborhoods is going to hell!’ Once again, Rohrabacher and a vocal group of concerned citizens helped to persuade local politicians to stand up for the American people, as Newport Beach voted to become the latest Orange County locality to throw their support behind the Justice Department.
For Rohrabacher, fighting against the lawlessness of open borders is nothing new. As NumbersUSA makes clear in his ‘Immigration-Reduction Report Card,’ Rohrabacher has spent years in Washington putting the American people first, and lobbying for immigration policy more beneficial to the security of the United States.
